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Posts tagged with 'York' at MetaFilter.Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:00:10 -0800Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:00:10 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60"I just want the system to follow the rules," he said.http://www.metafilter.com/163764/I%2Djust%2Dwant%2Dthe%2Dsystem%2Dto%2Dfollow%2Dthe%2Drules%2Dhe%2Dsaid
An investigation by The New York Times of tens of thousands of disciplinary cases against inmates in 2015, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/nyregion/new-york-state-prisons-inmates-racial-bias.html?_r=0">hundreds of pages of internal reports and three years of parole decisions found that racial disparities were embedded in the prison experience in New York.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.163764Sat, 03 Dec 2016 21:00:10 -0800roomthreeseventeenEven Feral Cats have to deal with gentrificationhttp://www.metafilter.com/162954/Even%2DFeral%2DCats%2Dhave%2Dto%2Ddeal%2Dwith%2Dgentrification
New York city is home to<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/realestate/what-can-i-do-about-feral-cats.html"> tens of thousands of stray cats</a> and there are around 500 registered feral cat colonies in NYC. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/nyregion/gentrifications-latest-victims-new-yorks-feral-cats.html">The latest real estate boom is also pushing out your local stray cat.</a> Vacant lots, old factories, former warehouses and even shuttered hospitals are being redeveloped, forcing colonies of strays to find new habitats. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/16/nyregion/a-no-kill-approach-to-feral-cat-control.html">While the cats help keep the vermin population in check, they can also carry disease, kill backyard wildlife "Outdoor cats obliterate wildlife," said Robert Johns of the American Bird Conservancy, "and yet they get special treatment. We don't allow colonies of feral dogs to roam around.</a>" But even gentrification can't tame the feral cat population. <a href="http://animalalliancenyc.org/feralcats/">The city's Feral Cat Initative is attempting to lower the feral cat population through a Trap-Neuter-Return program. It's an organization that constists of over 5,500 volunteers mobilized to take on one of New York's more intractable challenges <a href="https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161012/hells-kitchen-clinton/javits-center-feral-cats-rats">The Feral Cat Initiative is also sending out some contract killers to the Convention center.</a>
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All that being said, the bodega cat sleep easy.</a> There are more generations to come.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.162954Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:31:24 -0800rageagainsttherobotsSymbols matterhttp://www.metafilter.com/162406/Symbols%2Dmatter
<a href="http://www.thefader.com/2016/09/19/my-mississippi-pledge-kiese-laymon">What I Pledge Allegiance To.</a> <i>"I am a black Mississippian. I am a black American. I pledge to never be passive, patriotic, or grateful in the face of American abuse. I pledge to always thoughtfully bite the self-righteous American hand that thinks it's feeding us. I pledge to perpetually reckon with the possibility that there will never be any liberty, peace, and justice for all unless we accept that America, like Mississippi, is not clean. Nor is it great. Nor is it innocent."</i> -- Author <a href="http://www.kieselaymon.com/">Kiese Laymon</a>, Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi <strong>Also by Dr. Laymon</strong>
* <a href="http://gawker.com/5927452/how-to-slowly-kill-yourself-and-others-in-america-a-remembrance">How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance</a>
* <a href="http://gawker.com/my-vassar-college-faculty-id-makes-everything-ok-1664133077">My Vassar College Faculty ID Makes Everything OK</a>
* <a href="http://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/13842293/the-allure-ole-miss-football">How they do in Oxford</a>. NPR on this essay: <i><blockquote>"<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/10/19/449974747/making-a-home-in-the-shadow-of-confederate-symbols">Laymon, a Mississippi native, made a promise to himself as a child that he would never say the nation's pledge of allegiance at any place that prominently displayed the Confederate flag</a> — a promise he had to finally break this fall when he attended his first football game at the University of Mississippi. Ole Miss is a storied football program with a messy racial past and that is completely awash in Confederate symbols. The team's name is the Rebels; its mascot, up until very recently, was "<a href="http://espn.go.com/page2/s/caple/030916.html">Colonel Reb</a>"; the Confederate flag takes up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi#/media/File:Flag_of_Mississippi.svg">a full quadrant of the state's official banner</a>, which is waved around triumphantly by fans at the team's games.
Laymon casts an ambivalent eye on that imagery — what kind of self-respecting black person plays for and roots for a school where Rebel flags wave excitedly? — even as he finds himself swept up in a game in which the Rebels demolish a visiting team by nearly 70 points. It's a great, thorny exploration of the sacrifices we make to belong to a community."</blockquote></i>
<strong>Previously on MetaFilter</strong>
* <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/118372/How-to-Slowly-Kill-Yourself-and-Others-in-America-A-Remembrance">How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance</a>
* <a href="https://www.metafilter.com/130661/Kiese-Laymon-may-be-the-best-writer-and-curator-in-a-generation">Kiese Laymon may be the best writer and curator in a generation</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.162406Wed, 21 Sep 2016 07:29:46 -0800zarqWandering New Yorkhttp://www.metafilter.com/161777/Wandering%2DNew%2DYork
<a href="http://wanderingnewyork.tumblr.com/">Wandering New York</a> is a blog where amateur photographer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blWr-SfgnEw">Joseph Raskin</a> posts new photos of various <a href="http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/05/wandering_new_york_with_photog.html">New York City neighborhoods</a> every night. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.161777Mon, 22 Aug 2016 03:42:23 -0800ariadne's threadspinnerLife Behind the Stackshttp://www.metafilter.com/160894/Life%2DBehind%2Dthe%2DStacks
<a href="http://www.6sqft.com/life-behind-the-stacks-the-secret-apartments-of-new-york-libraries/">The Secret Apartments of New York Libraries</a> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.160894Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:39:22 -0800boo_radleyQueer Theatre at La MaMa (1962-1980)http://www.metafilter.com/159195/Queer%2DTheatre%2Dat%2DLa%2DMaMa%2D1962%2D1980
<a href="https://pushcartcatalog.wordpress.com/exhibits/history-of-queer-theatre/">Queer Theatre at La MaMa</a> (1962-1980): <em>This exhibit, which was created by Pooja Desai, a student in NYU's Program in Archives/Public history, looks at theatrical experiments from La MaMa's early years (1962-1980) through a queer lens. Using objects from La MaMa's Archives, Desai reconstructs a history of the plays, production companies, playwrights, and directors who presented work on La MaMa's stages that either reflected a "queer sensibility" or were relevant to queer/trans/LGBTQA audiences.</em> tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.159195Tue, 03 May 2016 15:55:41 -0800roomthreeseventeenA fine dayhttp://www.metafilter.com/158238/A%2Dfine%2Dday
The New York Public Library has digitized the diary of one <a href="http://archives.nypl.org/mss/318">Elizabeth De Hart Bleecker</a> as part of their <a href="http://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/02/08/bleecker-diary-today">Early American Manuscripts Project</a>. Bleecker wrote about her life in New York City for <a href="http://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/14/dehardt-bleecker-diary">seven</a> years, beginning in 1799 when she was eighteen years old and ending in 1806. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.158238Tue, 29 Mar 2016 12:58:49 -0800roomthreeseventeenGeeta, Rohan, and the Factoryhttp://www.metafilter.com/156723/Geeta%2DRohan%2Dand%2Dthe%2DFactory
A few weeks earlier, the male elders of their caste had decreed that village women working at nearby meat-processing factories should leave their jobs. The reason they gave was that women at home would be better protected from the sexual advances of outside men. A bigger issue lay beneath the surface: The women's earnings had begun to undermine the old order.
It came as a surprise when seven of the women, who had come to rely on the daily wage of 200 rupees, about $3, refused to stop. The women would have to, the men said, blocking the lane with their bodies. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/world/asia/indian-women-labor-work-force.html">They did not expect the women to go to the police.</a> (SLNYTimes). <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/insider/we-will-not-apologize-encountering-the-defiant-women-of-india.html">Ellen Barry writes about reporting this story.</a> The piece is the first in a larger series, "India's Missing Women," on the country's experience with integrating women into the work force. Wiki on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_caste">The Nat</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.156723Sat, 30 Jan 2016 13:57:56 -0800DiablevertThe Keeperhttp://www.metafilter.com/156373/The%2DKeeper
Gay City News profiles <a href="http://gaycitynews.nyc/keeper/">Robert Woodworth,</a> on his retirement after thirty-two years at New York's LGBT Community Center. tag:metafilter.com,2016:site.156373Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:17:04 -0800roomthreeseventeenIt looks like a brain...http://www.metafilter.com/147788/It%2Dlooks%2Dlike%2Da%2Dbrain
The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heslington_Brain">Heslington Brain</a> is a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7777385.stm">well-preserved 2600 year old brain</a> that was found in an Iron Age excavation site in York in 2008. Its preservation was likely due to the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-31724846">low-oxygen environment of the mud</a> in which it was found. The fact that the man was decapitated and the body disposed of elsewhere <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/decapitated-skull-over-2500-years-old-oldest-preserved-brain-britain-1490159">protected the brain from the ravages of gut bacteria</a> as well. The brain belonged to a man who was probably <a href="http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/features/features/8487242.Was_death_of_Iron_Age_man_a_ritual_killing_/">in his 30s and was hanged prior to decapitation</a>.
No one noticed anything odd when the skull was first dug up, until Rachel Cubitt noticed <a href="http://www.academia.dk/BiologiskAntropologi/Tafonomi/PDF/Brains/Britains_Oldest_Brain.pdf">something rattling around (PDF)</a> inside it when she went to clean the find.
At the time of its discovery, the brain had shrunk to 20% of its original size and had a "<a href="http://www.medicaldaily.com/2600-year-old-brain-found-england-remarkably-fresh-condition-242020">resilient tofu-like texture</a>".
<small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/133329/New-information-from-a-very-old-brain">previously in vintage brains...</a>)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.147788Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:37:00 -0800Blue Jello ElfWatching Williamsburg in Brooklyn NY Gentrify From Behind Its Oldest Barhttp://www.metafilter.com/147725/Watching%2DWilliamsburg%2Din%2DBrooklyn%2DNY%2DGentrify%2DFrom%2DBehind%2DIts%2DOldest%2DBar
When Kirby came to the neighborhood in 1979 she was a community organizer trying to save buildings from abandonment or neglect. Part of her job was begging businesses to re-occupy the empty storefronts along Bedford Avenue, where Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks now pay premium rents. <a href="http://gothamist.com/2015/02/26/williamsburg_teddys_bar.php#photo-1">At the end of a long day, Teddy's was her local bar. When dinner time rolled around, Mary and Teddy would lock the door and say, "Watch the place." They'd be back in ten minutes with white bread and bologna for sandwiches.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.147725Sun, 08 Mar 2015 10:11:35 -0800josher71Terminal Bar: Porters, Bouncers, and Bartendershttp://www.metafilter.com/145768/Terminal%2DBar%2DPorters%2DBouncers%2Dand%2DBartenders
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USDCEyHt7rI">Porters, Bouncers, and Bartenders, third installment of the amazing Terminal Bar film series.</a> For ten years, Sheldon Nadelman took thousands of black and white photographs while bartending at the Terminal Bar, Times Square's most notorious watering hole of the 1970s. Murray Goldman, the bar's owner since 1957 was Sheldon's father-in-law as well as the filmmaker's grandfather. The Terminal Bar was featured in Martin Scorsese's film Taxi Driver. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdyZ9LOXmZA">Terminal Bar: Pimps and Prostitutes</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWBbZBqYjo">Terminal Bar : Official 2002 film</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.145768Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:15:22 -0800Thor's HammerPeople of Times Squarehttp://www.metafilter.com/143170/People%2Dof%2DTimes%2DSquare
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TKutYRN_EM">Meet the people hanging out in Times Square late at night. </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square">Over 330,000 people</a> pass through Times Square every day. <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmnhbk_the-gods-of-times-square-cd-1_shortfilms">Here you can see the Times Square eccentrics in the 90s before the corporations took over</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.143170Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:34:06 -0800rageagainsttherobotsCut square and stamped with a proper stamp of the happy union and bakedhttp://www.metafilter.com/142606/Cut%2Dsquare%2Dand%2Dstamped%2Dwith%2Da%2Dproper%2Dstamp%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dhappy%2Dunion%2Dand%2Dbaked
"<a href="http://foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com/2013/05/some-regency-biscuits.html">Nowadays, we tend to eat biscuits with beverages like tea and coffee. But in the past they were an important element of the dessert course and were dipped into sweet wine</a>." - Food History Jottings (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/122829/Food-History-Jottings">previously</a>) on the strange world of Regency biscuits. (Cookies to you US types.) tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142606Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:34:59 -0800The WhelkSRLP and Laverne Coxhttp://www.metafilter.com/142263/SRLP%2Dand%2DLaverne%2DCox
Last week, the <a href="http://srlp.org">Sylvia Rivera Law Project</a> uploaded a YouTube video of Laverne Cox reading a letter written by a New York State inmate named Synthia China Blast, who <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/skarlan/laverne-cox-reads-a-letter-from-a-transwoman-currently-in-pr#8arsnn">described living in solitary confinement for the last decade</a>. However, that video has since, at Cox's <a href="http://lavernecox.tumblr.com/post/95567409116/when-i-agreed-to-participate-in-a-recent-sylvia">request</a>, been taken down. (TW: descriptions of murder, sexual violence) After making the video, it came to light that<a href="http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/08/26/laverne-cox-distances-herself-controversial-trans-inmate">"in 1996, Blast and Carlos Franco — both members of the Latin Kings gang — were found guilty in the 1993 rape and murder of 13-year-old Ebony Williams. According to the New York Daily News, "Bronx Prosecutor William Hrabsky said the two held the girl captive in a Hunts Point apartment, [Blast] raping her and repeatedly slashing her body. Franco was charged with killing the girl after breaking her neck."</a>
<a href="http://srlp.org/endsolitary/videoinformation/">SRLP statement on the video, and the End Solitary Campaign</a>
In 2007, SRLP published "<a href="http://srlp.org/files/warinhere.pdf">It's War in Here</a>" (pdf), a report on the treatment of transgender and intersex inmates in New York's correctional facilities.
Solitary Watch:<a href="http://solitarywatch.com/2014/08/07/transgender-women-in-new-york-state-prisons-face-solitary-confinement-and-sexual-assault/"> Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault</a>: <em>"Sometimes I'm on my bed, I'm crying," she told Solitary Watch. "I wake up at five o'clock in the morning thinking about it, and I say, 'God my son is stuck in a cell for 23 hours a day," said Scott, who seems to accept Smith's transition but still uses male pronouns. "And I pray and ask God, 'Please give him the grace to do it.'" Smith is in disciplinary segregation, known as the Special Housing Unit, or SHU.</em>
In April, a 16 year-old trans girl named only in court documents as "Jane Doe" filed this <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1113035-4-14-14affidavit-redacted-reduced.html">affidavit</a>, after having been transferred from DCF custody to solitary confinement in an adult prison in Connecticut, after DCF cited <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/transgender-16-year-old-solitary-cell-adult-prison">"an obscure statute that allows doing so when it is in the "best interest" of the child."</a>
<a href="http://www.ohio.edu/lgbt/resources/trans101.cfm">Trans 101</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.142263Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:25:28 -0800roomthreeseventeenMarilize Leguanahttp://www.metafilter.com/141368/Marilize%2DLeguana
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html?_r=0">The New York Times came out today endorsing marijuana legalization.</a> The New York Times' editorial board on Saturday called on the federal government to legalize marijuana. Citing alcohol prohibition, social costs and states' movements, the board argued "after a great deal of discussion" that "the balance falls squarely on the side of national legalization." tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141368Sun, 27 Jul 2014 17:27:01 -0800toastcheeUpstate Girls Project + Slate + Facebook = Internet Ragehttp://www.metafilter.com/141174/Upstate%2DGirls%2DProject%2DSlate%2DFacebook%2DInternet%2DRage
<a href="http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/when-struggling-families-spark-internet-rage/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=c-column-top-span-region&amp;region=c-column-top-span">Slate's article on the photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally's Upstate Girls project article sparks huge internet backlash.</a> Brenda spent ten years documenting the <a href="http://www.upstategirls.org/">lives of five women in Troy through photography</a>. Slate <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/07/17/brenda_ann_kenneally_documents_life_below_the_poverty_line_in_troy_york.html">published an article about the project</a> and then the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Slate/posts/10152523137786438">Facebook comments</a> rolled in. For perspective, take a look at the <a href="http://tiffinbox.org/upstate-girls-brenda-ann-kenneally/">interview with Brenda</a> about the project and <a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/showcase-63/">New York Times original showcase of the project</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141174Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:17:17 -0800ichimunkiI wanted to incorporate the city and its inhabitants into my filmmaking.http://www.metafilter.com/138741/I%2Dwanted%2Dto%2Dincorporate%2Dthe%2Dcity%2Dand%2Dits%2Dinhabitants%2Dinto%2Dmy%2Dfilmmaking
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJx_aeb-w7VnlhnAVnRTDXw">No Your City</a>
In a city of over 8 million people, it is impossible to walk the streets without running into interesting New Yorkers with unique relationships to the city. Whether it is Don Ward, the best shoe-shiner in Manhattan or Te'Devan the 6'7" Nomadic-Jewish-Healing-Freestyler. Everyone has a story that is worth hearing, but unfortunately most of them go unheard. New York City is the busiest place on earth and it is rare for someone to take a few minutes out of their schedule to stop and chat with a fellow New Yorker.
No Your City is an 8-part documentary series that offers a glimpse into the lives of these extraordinary New York City inhabitants. <a href="http://gothamist.com/2014/04/30/no_your_city_creator_talks_about_fi.php#.">'No Your City' Creator Talks About Filming Unique New Yorkers</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138741Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:40:53 -0800davidstandafordAmerican Museum of Natural Unlocks 1000's Of Old Photoshttp://www.metafilter.com/138584/American%2DMuseum%2Dof%2DNatural%2DUnlocks%2D1000s%2DOf%2DOld%2DPhotos
<em><a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/items/browse?collection=8">The American Museum of Natural History</a> will unlock<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/collections/browse"> thousands of old photos from their vault</a>, they announced this week. The new online image database (officially launching on Monday the 28th) will take you behind the curtain, delivering images that span the 145-year history of the Museum. The collection features over 7,000 images—many never before seen by the public—and includes photos, rare book illustrations, drawings, notes, letters, art, and Museum memorabilia. They say "it's like stepping into a time machine and seeing a long ago NYC or just catching glimpses of ghosts from a forgotten world now seen only by researchers and Museum staff."</em> <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/72829/American-Museum-of-Natural-History-Photo-Collection"> Previously</a>. A random selection of a handful of images, eye candy and history from around the world
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/fae8c111f7f1548b9b34ce7580e34ebf.jpg">American Museum of Natural History exterior at Manhattan Square, 1878</a> [When the Upper West side was still the Wild West].
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/3d939754fc170a21201e0877ca08fc46.jpg">American Museum of Natural History exterior, view from roof of Dakota Apartments, 72nd Street and Central Park West, 1880</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/6bb0a68babe1ab1e544a3ece87a56f2e.jpg">Hand painted butterflies from Chinese plates of butterflies</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/12e3f0e03562eb8ec40a59d6da08b025.jpg">Huichol Indians at Te-akata, birthplace of the God of Fire, near Santa Catarina, Jalisco, 1895</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/c884d1b1f74dfd5058a52eee6c954143.jpg">Woman with arm akimbo, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1904</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/63b4fd58d16802b42c33ca5fb944e72a.jpg">Dode on beach, Gasparilla Pass, Florida, 1908</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/ed6e3679e0b585ab04b3b99782b3971e.jpg">African American woman sitting with children in front of fireplace, South Carolina, 1905</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/11da041d18e6c7e068983080ef6dbeaf.jpg">African American woman next to Elsie wearing straw hat, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1904</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/eca961ff75a66013d5672604e71277a0.jpg">Skeleton of Pterodon longiceps, late Cretaceous period, 1996</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/b7984aaa36946e17716e42c085f571ed.jpg">Tachyglofsus aculeatus jllig from Schreber's Die såugthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/f4fb0c607b4bbba96f0928aea7cb0b4a.jpg">Ruins in rock overhang, Garabato, Mexico, 1892</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/2401daf8393204eb5a592febb79df89d.jpg">Coiled nautiloid cephalopod, diorama depicting Pennsylvanian period, North Central Texas</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/5fc1e85a07d7fbde83660629d67b19b1.jpg">Various species of fish from Renard's Poissons, écrevisses et crabes</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/fd155c96e0562b3fd03d1a6b07c05e84.jpg">Shaman's coat, Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada, 1987</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/ebac26ec9d615854d13b169c3e177540.jpg">Scheme of Colours color wheel from Harris' Exposition of English insects</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/9a3c8bb14b216fc1272ad38b9ac28f1e.jpg">Libellulae, dragonflies, from Harris' Exposition of English insects</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/c11ada8502be7787694f077c47926803.jpg">Man, Mongolia, Third Asiatic Expedition</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/75c3750ed9734ec1805b298bf29d8270.jpg">Ho-djani Kachina doll, Hopi</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/3cbf0d85de1b4f7d8f59929c61842f83.jpg">Diddon hystrix from Bloch's Allgemeine Naturgeschichte der Fische</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/26ffc7478f55d6bfea0acb4f529c6709.jpg">Koryak men wearing armor with bows and arrows, Siberia, 1901</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/658bc089b7ec77a3510022d2ebeac970.jpg">Butterflies, plate 5 from Seguy's Papillons</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/3c08aa514d61bb2ea04264e82a093b86.jpg">Dutch women, Ellis Island</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/954da6f017b48c5f34fb223e7be884d0.jpg">Cover of Woodward's A manual of the Mollusca</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/b346233b06a420becb7be9dfeb1bf354.jpg">Ignaz Marausch constructing flea model</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/bcf3eac8d335718aa6d3b4381e81b224.jpg">Plants and flowers, botanical illustration for use in Bighorn Sheep Group</a>
<a href="http://images.library.amnh.org/digital/files/original/49143952090e1c9dc26842512e486d54.jpg">Lew Brown and George Peterson installing trees in Spruce-Fir Group, Forestry Hall, 1956</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138584Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:37:06 -0800nickyskye*The New York Yankees were removed to make this map possible.http://www.metafilter.com/138575/The%2DNew%2DYork%2DYankees%2Dwere%2Dremoved%2Dto%2Dmake%2Dthis%2Dmap%2Dpossible
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/23/upshot/24-upshot-baseball.html">Up Close on Baseball's Borders</a> is a detailed, zoomable interactive map which uses data from Facebook to present the team preferences of baseball fandom in the United States. Around the end of March, Facebook had released a map using the same data which despite being touted as <a href="http://deadspin.com/facebook-data-provide-the-most-accurate-mlb-fandom-map-1555222593">most accurate</a> ever, had significant problems. The most notable of these issues was a colorshift introduced as the main graphic went viral, rendering the map illegible. <small>I had thought the prior map had recieved its' own post but was unable to dig it up in ten seconds of searching.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138575Thu, 24 Apr 2014 08:21:48 -0800mwhybarkNew York's Erstwhile "Type Ward"http://www.metafilter.com/138420/New%2DYorks%2DErstwhile%2DType%2DWard
<a href="http://www.frerejones.com/blog/my-kind-of-neighborhood/">New York once had a concentration of type foundries near City Hall.</a> "What did they find so vital about this one neighborhood?" tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.138420Fri, 18 Apr 2014 08:56:11 -0800ChuckRamoneWhy I'm Jealous of My Dog's Insurancehttp://www.metafilter.com/137769/Why%2DIm%2DJealous%2Dof%2DMy%2DDogs%2DInsurance
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/26/opinion/why-im-jealous-of-my-dogs-insurance.html?gwh=1D30868E09414F96808B6A29DE8B75DE&amp;gwt=regi&amp;_r=0">Why I'm Jealous of My Dog's Insurance (SLNYT)</a> tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.137769Wed, 26 Mar 2014 05:07:41 -0800deathpanelsWHO CARESSSSS!http://www.metafilter.com/137283/WHO%2DCARESSSSS
<a href="http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/02/10/broad-city-rise-female-stoner/4324/">"Broad City" and the rise of the female stoner</a> See <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/how-two-comedy-rejects-got-their-own-show-and-remained-true">also</a>, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/22/behind-broad-city-amy-poehler-s-girls-of-comedy.html">also</a>.
Broad city stars Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer and Hannibal Buress, and airs on Comedy Central (Wed 10:30 / 9:30C). tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.137283Fri, 07 Mar 2014 11:02:57 -0800mysticrefereeAnd then he died, of course.http://www.metafilter.com/136709/And%2Dthen%2Dhe%2Ddied%2Dof%2Dcourse
<a href="http://www.edittasherman.com">Editta Sherman</a> was a portrait photographer who shot celebrities from <a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KzNH4ksLL._SY450_.jpg">Elvis Presley</a> to the <a href="http://us.cdn281.fansshare.com/photos/angelalansbury/angela-lansbury-angela-lansbury-1645568011.jpg">young Angela Lansbury</a> to <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zTDbb6xgKV0/TEnwJ9-d36I/AAAAAAAAAUg/BMZ1KQBjAoA/s1600/3139943616_798e9f007b_b.jpg">Andy Warhol</a> to <a href="http://potd.pdnonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Joe-DiMaggio.jpg">Joe DiMaggio</a> to <a href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/07/12/article-2172822-140A5F15000005DC-564_964x1092.jpg">Tilda Swinton</a>.</a> Called</a> the<a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/11/07/243780239/photographer-editta-sherman-duchess-of-carnegie-hall-dies-at-101"> Duchess of Carnegie Hall</a>, Sherman lived and worked out of <a href="http://nymag.com/homedesign/greatrooms/42385/index2.html">studio 1208</a> for 50 years before the music hall <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/nyregion/28carnegie.html">decided to clear out the rent-controlled apartments [NYT]</a> to make room for offices in 2010. Just before the eviction, she (along with many other artist neighbors) were interviewed in their homes, in Josef Astor's documentary <a href="http://www.lostbohemia.com/">Lost Bohemia</a>.
She was a decades-long friend, neighbor and <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2560468/Bill-Cunninghams-timeless-New-York-Breathtaking-black-white-prints-legendary-photographer-mix-vintage-fashions-citys-famed-landmarks.html">muse</a> to Bill Cunningham (yes, <a href="http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/billcunninghamnewyork/">that</a> Bill Cunningham) (previously <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/109131/Bill-Cunningham-New-York">1</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/95472/Marilyn-Monroe-used-come-by-to-try-on-hats">2</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/128679/All-Powerful-Bike-Lobby">3</a>), who featured her in his book of New York landscapes offset by period fashions, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140049487/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Facades</a>.
<a href="http://www.showbiz411.com/2013/11/07/editta-sherman-famed-photographer-of-hollywood-legends-dies-at-101">Here's</a> an interview from age 90. <a href="http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/photographer-editta-sherman">Here's</a> one of her final interviews, discussing a retrospective of her work that showed last summer. Her favorite portrait? Probably this one of <a href="http://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Power-e1342531313963.jpg">Tyrone Power</a> (Mine is this color one of 60's model <a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/07/08/blogs/20120708-lens-sherman-slide-M84F/20120708-lens-sherman-slide-M84F-custom1.jpg">Veruschka</a>)
She died this past November <a href="http://www.timesherald.com/general-news/20131108/editta-sherman-duchess-of-carnegie-hall-dies">at the age of 101</a>.
Bill Cunningham's <i>Facades</i> photos of Editta and New York will be on view at the New York Historical Society <a href="https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/bill-cunningham-facades">beginning next month</a>.
Slideshow of more photos <a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/the-duchess-of-carnegie-hall-turns-100/">here</a> [NYT]
A book of Sherman's portraits, <em>Studio 1208: Camera Studies by Editta Sherman</em>, is due out later this year<a href="http://www.wqxr.org/#!/story/heres-why-they-called-her-dutchess-carnegie-hall/"> (cite - with bonus portraits of classical musicians)</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.136709Sun, 16 Feb 2014 13:09:26 -0800Mchelly"The neighborhood has all gone t' hell"http://www.metafilter.com/136135/The%2Dneighborhood%2Dhas%2Dall%2Dgone%2Dt%2Dhell
<a href="http://gothamist.com/2014/01/23/thoughts_on_brooklyn_from_the_1920s.php#photo-1">Visiting the Big Apple?</a> <em>"Don't ask a pedestrian where a certain street is. He is usually too busy to stop, and if polite enough to stop, won't know. No New Yorker knows anything about New York."</em> And another kind reminder: <em>"Don't gape at women smoking cigarettes in restaurants. They are harmless and respectable, notwithstanding and nevertheless. They are also smart."</em> Advice from <em><a href="https://archive.org/stream/valentinescityof00browa#page/n5/mode/2up">Valentine's City of New York: A Guide Book</a></em>, published in 1920. Archive.org currently offers 6,805 <a href="https://openlibrary.org/subjects/guidebooks#ebooks=true&sort=edition_count">guidebooks</a> published between 1499 &amp; 2013. tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.136135Wed, 29 Jan 2014 10:23:19 -0800zarq